Spotlighting Remarkable Women and Girls

Raising Women Magazine Issue 050 – August 2026

Editor's Note

Fifty issues. That feels worth pausing for.

Not because fifty is simply a lovely round number, but because every issue represents another opportunity to ask better questions about women, culture and the world we are building.

And Issue 50 certainly asks questions.

Our cover story, PRETTY, BY DESIGN, takes us to South Korea and its billion dollar pursuit of beauty, examining what happens when appearance becomes intertwined with confidence, opportunity and social capital. But before we become too fascinated by South Korea, perhaps we should check our own mirrors. The pursuit of “better” is increasingly global.

Elsewhere, we meet an Olympic champion who found gold at 41 and after motherhood, explore the AI gap reshaping women’s work, rediscover our grandmothers as archivists and ask why dinner now requires photography before eating.

Fifty editions later, Raising Women Magazine remains curious, global and committed to conversations that matter.

Here’s to 50.

And to everything we are still becoming.

Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

MAY IKEORA-AMAMGBO (PHD)

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